My best guess is that with the second season of Jury Duty being about a corporate retreat

Occasionally I need reminders as to why I havent owned a television set in 20 years. Yep, shits still brain-damaged out there in TV land

i kinda wanted to think it was drunken kung fu, crazy wisdom, or 4d chess

That's always the claim.

It is rooted in the "madman" theory, and it isn't complete bunk, but vastly overrated. Acting like (or being) a crazy asshole is its own form of predictability.

And in Piggy's case, it is a cope masquerading as a boast. When he can't bully, the dipshit just has nothing else. He's strategic about nothing except protecting his fragile ego.

So he does utterly stupid things like attacking Iran while claiming the goals were secret so he could retcon whatever he wanted. The reality is he's decompensing - he's losing badly in court and public opinion. The weird kidnapping of the Honduran president made him think he knows better than all those egghead generals, and he stuck his dick in a meat grinder. And all the while he gets a little more demented, retreating up his own ass, mincing about the drapes in his oh-so-pretty ballroom/citadel from which to claim he can't be ousted as Supreme Ruler.

Which would be fine, except he's taking the rest of the country with him while making everyone hate us.

Trump is a shit stain on the underwear of the nation. He needs to go.

...My installation of minidlna still works fine, is Free Software, and doesn't phone home or exfiltrate my metadata.

I've been very fond of the "actual money" currency. Its got a much less "fiat" backing than cryptocurrencies, doesnt involve any expensive proof of works and is reliably handled by almost all brokerages.

And you can buy pizza with it. Hell, keep it in paper form, its even anonymous.

And it didn't even really pull the heat of the Epstein stuff, so it failed there, too.

On the bright side, the dipshit also badly damaged his coalition.

But yes, Stumpy: - spent upwards of 12 digits on war porn without any plan,
- got badly outplayed by Iran on one side, Israel on the other, and China playing adult in the room,
- destroyed the Freedom of Navigation the world depends on for trade the US used to guarantee,
- spit in the face of our allies, yet again,
- demonstrated to the world that the US cannot be trusted to keep commitments,
- turned the most active Iranian protests against the regime in decades into very public demonstrations defending it.

Oh - and we're not done. Iran says the ceasefire isn't on yet, because US/Israel is violating several of the provisions, and the Strait is not, in fact, open.

This is that fucking idiot failure Don Trump's gift for Americans.

Man, people are still trying to hawk Lightning because they crippled bitcoin with the 1MB blocksize cap?

Just a couple weeks ago, I replaced the battery in my 6-year-old Lemur Pro. Not very hard, and now it's great at holding a charge again.

Yes, getting this thing in 2020 cost me 2-3 times as much as today's new Macbook Neo, but I needed a machine I could rely on, that wasn't designed as though I'm the manufacturer's adversary.

By controlling and interrogating the quantum spin state of this crystal defect, researchers have been able to demonstrate field detectivity down to nT/Hz1/2 on length scales of a few tens of nanometers.

So only have to improve it by 14 orders of magnitude.

So well after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Could the point of the brag be that it's newer hardware? My understanding is that successive generations of earthling chips are more vulnerable to malfunction from cosmic rays, etc due to their much higher density.

But I've totally not kept up. Is this still a problem?

Yeah Vista was when I switched over to the mac. Got a new "Made for Vista" Asus laptop that almost immediately started bluescreening and ran like shit. After the computer store refused to let me get a license for XP for free to replace Vista I just returned it as "not fit for purpose" and drove over to the Apple store and told them to give me the "elevator pitch" on why I should switch and they succeeded , and that 2006 mac ran fine till I upgraded to the 2011 which I stuck with till the M1 in 2020, though by the time I got that M1, there was probably zero original components in that 2011 mac, as I had swapped the drive and CD out for a pair of SSDs, replaced a faulty wifi module, replaced the motherboard after frying it in a coffee accident, upgraded the ram, replaced the heyboard and topcase after the keyboard crapped out from another coffee accident, and replaced the screen after a cat accident. Yeah, cant do that with macs no more. And thus why it took me a decade to upgrade.

There are moving parts in all the cameras, you know, for being abot to focus.

This is an attempt to reduce fear, but it seems like a pretty sophomore effort.

They have enough money for really good PR, so I have to imagine there are... personalities interfering. Or maybe just one.

Going to be fun watching the hustling as they try to IPO with a CFO who says it won't work.

Have Linux usage numbers gone up dramatically since Win 10 went off-support?

Yes. Linux desktop useage has gion up around 400% since the start of the 2020s

It uses VRTX, reportedly. Linux wasn't suitable as a real-time OS when the Hubble was designed, or really even when the Hubble got the 486 installed in 2009.